Event

Join us (the seminar ENGL 41, “Animals & Human Rights”) for an artist lecture by Jill Casid featuring a screening of their short experimental film, Untitled (Melancholy as Medium), commissioned as part of the recent Ford Foundation Gallery exhibition Indisposable: Structures of Support after the ADA.

Casid’s film debuted on June 9, 2021 as part of a program of queer/ of color artist/activists: fierce pussy, Pato Hebert, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, Pamela Sneed, and Heather Lynn Johnson, under this rubric:

“Reckoning with the question of what to do with the ways we’re being undone, Chapter 5: Melancholy as Medium brings us together for an activist wake that refuses to move on. The evening unfolds a ritual of mediumship to conduce our outraged grief as catalytic for the uprising and care work of living with more than one virus, amidst more than one pandemic, carrying our as yet unaddressed losses into the battles we’re still waging in the name of supports for the thriving of Black, Brown, Indigenous, crip, queer and trans vitalities.”

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Co-sponsors: Penn Cinema & Media Studies and English